Micah wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:09:32PM -0800, Ron wrote:
No, you can just compile it yourself using ports (although the ports
collection also doesn't support 5.3 any longer, most things will still
work). Using packages with pkg_add -r is an *alternative* to
compiling yourself using the ports system, and there's no point in
updating your ports collection if you're not going to use it.
Is there a way to update to 5.4 that doesn't involve reinstalling?
Everything I can find about it makes it seem like a very complex
process. If someone can point me to some step-by-step docs, I would
appreciate it. (Yes, I have looked all over the freebsd site, and I
don't see anything that is plain and simple instructions).
It's explained in detail in the handbook.
Kris
Under the title "cutting edge"
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html
Note: it's geared towards -STABLE and -CURRENT users (hence the
misleading title), just set your cvs tag to RELENG_5_4 to update to 5.4
Later,
Micah
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Ron,
The common way to upgrade would be to CVSUP, however I have found Colin
Percivals update instructions quite useful.
Here is the site for you to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4:
http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.3-to-5.4/
Try it out.
Thanks,
Russell
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